The unlimited AI and energy now being unleashed is supposed to usher in a new utopia centered around low wages and prices. So why are Andreessen and friends so intent on a police state as part of the grand experiment we’re all being enlisted in?
Read more...Ideas about how to reduce fire risk in Los Angeles do not appear to go far enough.
Read more...Scientists seem unduly casual about the threats posed by engineered bacteria and viruses that are chemical mirror images of natural ones
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis contends that even though Israel’s genocide in Gaza looks unstoppable, that the costs to Israel will keep rising.
Read more...Outside his family., friends, and close colleagues, not many tears are being shed over the murder of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson.
Read more...Silicon Valley looks to bring tech used in conflicts abroad back to American shores.
Read more...“The Spectre of War” by Jonathan Haslam provides some clues — at least for the UK.
Read more...Why peer review is not what you might think it is, and what can be done to remedy that.
Read more...An important Tucker Carlson interview on how Big Food and Big Pharma are profit from worsening American health outcomes.
Read more...How bad incentives and funders’ love of glitz lead to poor scientific research outcomes and demotivated academics.
Read more...A discussion of the regulatory and behavioral issues that helped produce the Crowdstrike 404.
Read more...The Silicon Valley citadel of capitalism is built on eugenics, bombs, and hatred of the working class, and it’s destroying the world.
Read more...Addressing wide-of-the-mark commentary on the latest too-clever Western idea. of stealing the $300 billion in Russian central bank assets.
Read more...On the value of cultivating intellectual humility.
Read more...Why health insurance schemes, both private insurance and society-wide programs, are more costly than and inferor to government funding.
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